The evidence is growing daily that the use of modern pesticides and in particular the Neonicotinoid class of chemicals are causing allot of the problems that effect honey bees. This relatively new set of nicotine based pesticides are >7200 times as toxic as the chemical DDT which was banned in 1972.
Please click on the links below to open PDF files related to the use of pesticides and their effect on Honey Bees.
Click below to open the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Pesticide Database